Julian Assange Quotes

To newspapers and publishing houses I urge the use of fact over fiction, freedom of the press, and responsibility at all times.

Whenever you're reporting, there's always something you can't say or write, but the questions, you always want to get as close to that line as possible. You want to ask the tough questions.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

Most good newspapers don't set out to offend readers. But newspapers shouldn’t avoid controversy, and if they don’t occasionally a offend readers, they’re probably not doing their job.

Liberty of the press is a privilege to publish, with impunity, falsehood on matters of public concern, in the honest belief it is truth, with good motives, for justifiable ends

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Even in an enlightened democracy, the media have to check themselves to make sure they are not contributing to an unnecessary mass hysteria.

I have no interest in interfering or involving myself in journalistic integrity or process.

I feel instead of censorship, we need to self-regulate ourselves while producing any kind of content.

Journalism is a messy business. For every prize-winning story there's plenty of gossip and garbage.

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write.

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

I'm supremely uninterested as to what is written in many of the newspapers.

As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

These cartoons are an unnecessary abuse of freedom of speech.

We need to take on Hollywood. They are poisoning the minds of our kids.

It's very difficult to have just a little bit of censorship.

All that crap, you're putting in the paper ... Katie Graham is gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that's published.

We have pleaded to the entertainment industry to raise their standards and protect our children.

The press are the representative of the people and they have a right to know, but they don’t have the right to know right now…. There is an art to telling the truth slowly.

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits. And can the wisdom of this policy be doubted by any one who reflects that to the press alone, checkered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression?

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils it creates